“Now you got us whammied with the curse of squirmy death.”

“It's your father's fault that the curse got placed and the place got cursed in the first place.”

“You made your own bed, and now curse others for putting you there.”

“pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death”

“You're fucked. You thought you were going to be someone, but now it's obvious you're nobody. You haven't got as much talent as you thought you had, and there was no Plan B, and you got no skills and no education, and now you're looking at forty or fifty years of nothing. Less than nothing, probably. That's pretty heavy. That's worse than having the brain thing, because what you got now will take a lot longer to kill you. You've got the choice of a slow, painful death, or a quick, merciful one.”

“Villagers took her sudden death as a curse of verdict stone....”